WHCsenryu...
A STUDY OF TRUE SENRYU
UGACHI
Susumu Takiguchi, UK

A STUDY OF TRUE SENRYU.(PART I): UGACHI (2)

[1] My senryu works

Let me use actual senryu works (mine and yours) and some other things to show UGACHI at work. They are presented here primarily for the purpose of explaining UGACHI. Therefore, whether they are good senryu or bad is immaterial, though one would of course have hoped they ARE! As in the case of haiku, good senryu are few and far between but once you know what UGACHI is then you would be able to start trying to write good ones with UGACHI. Let me stick my neck out first:


see how victims
turn to perpetrators...
atrocities


victims
of bullying turn
bullies


abused children yesterday,
children's abusers today


bombed children turn
suicide bombers


the more you bomb
the more suicide bombers
you generate


Hydra...
it isn't Greek mythology
after all


things become suddenly
dear to you, when they are
taken away from you


you suddenly want
to keep it, only when someone
wants it


all assumptions
are wrong, yes all, including
this assumption


when you want to
demonstrate filial piety, your mother
has long been dead


you love your wife
more deelply when
she's dead and gone


you know how much
it hurts, only when you are
beaten up yourself


one man's senryu
is another man's
poison


one man's humour
is another man's
anger


if it's not haiku
nor senryu, then it is
not anything


comparing senryu
with haiku and getting
nowhere


the differences between man and woman,
the differences between haiku and senryu;
the former worth pursuing, the latter not


making up her face
she's failed to hide
her heart


old age pension...
the time to prepare oneself
for the final exit


understanding parents
only when they've gone


understanding parents only
by becoming a parent oneself


one can cope with
the loss of parents better only
when one becomes a parent


most of the time
we are talking cross-purposes…
including to ourselves


most of our communications:
either miscommunications
or discommunications


wars in this world
start with sibling rivalry


siblings...
the point of departure
to "other people"

(from an old Japanese proverb)


birth and rebirth
perpetuate the cycle of violence
and hatred


no wonder,
Zen teaches
nothingness!


life: a creator of inequality
death: a great leveller


all of us have Buddha in us,
we are told after birth; all of us become Buddha,
we are told before death


children’s first names…
crystallise parents’ wishful thinking
and unfulfilled dreams


even murderers
have lovely first names —
Jack, Osama, Al...


ugachi...
inexplicable, then
don't explain


ugachi lies
where logic cannot
reach


one knows
ugachi when one
sees one

 

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